Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will officially resign sometime during the last 10 days of April, a step that is necessary to hold planned June 20 early parliamentary elections.

Ukraine’s defence minister said Russia’s military buildup could bring more troops into the region and potentially extend to using Crimea for storing nuclear weapons.

Kazakhstan plans to make changes to the Central Asian country's electoral legislation, easing requirements for political parties and introducing direct voting at the local municipal election, in a move to liberalise its political system.